The Roane State Commuity College basketball teams had a rough weekend in West Tennessee, losing three of four games played against Southwest Community College and Dyersburg State.
On Friday evening, the dropped both games at Southwest Community College, as the Raiders were beaten 74-56 and the Raiderettes won 75-54, while the teams dropped both games at Dyersburg State Saturday, as the Raiderettes lost 77-62 and the Raiders were beaten 89-79.

Thanksgiving weekend brings some closure to the college football season, as conferences wrap up their push for championships and to fill their bowl affiliations.
Things are set in the SEC, as Alabama clinched the SEC West and will play Eastern division champ Florida in Atlanta Dec. 3. Florida (6-2, 8-2) defeated LSU (4-3, 6-4) 16-10 Saturday to face the Crimson Tide for the SEC crown.

A Kentucky woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday morning on North Gateway Avenue in Rockwood.

Trooper Gary Snow of the Tennessee Highway Patrol said 56-year-old Dawn Marie Schmidt was killed when the 2016 Rav 4 she was driving was struck from behind by a 2015 Volvo tractor-trailer driven by Joshua Lee Sherrill, 37, of Jasper.

Snow said Schmidt had approached the intersection of Strang Street and Gateway Avenue at about 8:55 a.m., when the 18-wheeler slammed into the rear of the Rav 4.

Late Harriman City Councilwoman Mary Harback was known for her enthusiasm for two things.

“She was very passionate about Christmas and the city of Harriman,” said Mayor Wayne Best.

Her Christmas spirit will be remembered at a special event from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 29, when the public will gather to both remember Harback and place ornaments in honor and memory of other loved ones onto the

As a U.S. Army technical observer, Harriman’s Gary Todd was in a crew on OV-1 Mohawks that flew across Vietnam looking for the bad guys for the American troops on the ground.

“We had infrared radar cameras,” Todd said. “Anything we could try to find the enemy with, that is what we had.”

Armed only with pistols, they may not have been on the front lines, but they faced daily danger from being shot down and fear of crashing when a heavy blanket of fog settled over the humid jungles of Vietnam.

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ’s disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”

Editor’s note: While we’re all making our Thanksgiving menu preparations, we thought we’d ask some experts for new and unique ways to prepare the centerpiece of Thursday’s meal. You are, of course, welcome to stick to traditional methods of preparing your turkey. A special thanks to Midtown Elementary Principal Kendra Inman, first-grade teachers Lauren Simpson and Kayla Wadlington and their students for helping with this project. Happy Thanksgiving!

Dalaina: First you put it in the oven, then take it out and cut it up, and then you eat it.